On the minimization of multinomial tails and the Gupta-Nagel conjecture

DOI10.1016/j.jmva.2004.10.010zbMath1067.62053WikidataQ122984310 ScholiaQ122984310MaRDI QIDQ557990

Tommaso Gastaldi

Publication date: 30 June 2005

Published in: Journal of Multivariate Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2004.10.010

zbMATH Keywords

tables; Subset selection; Pascal triangle; Best selection; Indifference-zone selection; Lower tail; Multinomial coefficients; Multinomial distribution; Partitions of integer; Schur-convex functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62H05: Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas

62G32: Statistics of extreme values; tail inference

62E10: Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions

62F07: Statistical ranking and selection procedures

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